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Microsoft: would you like a computer in that recipe box?
by Brad Linder Jun 7th 2007
ZDNet's Mary Jo foley reports that Microsoft is working on a kitchen-specific version of Windows Vista. Actually, Microsoft wants you to have a computer in every room, with applications tailored to that room. The Kitchen Client will likely be a layer of software running over Windows Vista that includes a family calendar, recipe center, bulletin board, and entertainment features like music and video. It will probably run on some sort of a tablet PC so that you can interact with the computer via a stylus with digital ink and/or a touch screen.
Not to sound like a luddite, but it seems like a dry erase board and a radio would be able to do most of the same things for a lot cheaper. But they can't connect to your home network to interact with other PCs in the house or go online to use Windows Live services.
And odds are you'll be able to pick up a Kitchen Client for significantly less than the $5000+ that early coffee-table style PCs running Surface are expected to cost.
Note that the PC in the picture is not technically a Kitchen Client, but rather a HP touch-screen PC running Windows Vista and HP software designed to make kitchen operation a bit easier.
So, just how good at time waster games are you? Think you've got the stuff? Well, The World's Hardest Game 2.0 doesn't think you do.
Yes, amazingly, it's possible to have a sequel to a game called "The World's Hardest Game". It doesn't seem logically possible, since if the first one was actually the world's hardest, how could another one come along and share the moniker? It made me doubt the name in the first place. That is, until I tried the game.
The mechanics of the game are very simple. You are a small red square, ...
